Here in the United States, we recently celebrated Thanksgiving and with that, we now enter the last weeks of 2018. I've spent much of this past year involved in ICANN's Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) for gTLD Registration Data and I'm happy to say our group has reached a historic milestone. Just last [...] Continue reading →

Revised broadband satellite planSources 1 & 2On November 15, the FCC approved a revision to the plan for Starlink, SpaceX's forthcoming broadband satellite service. The new plan reduces the number of satellites from 4,525 to 4,409 and lowers the altitude of the phase-1 satellites from 1,100 to 550 km. Mark Handley, a professor at University [...] Continue reading →

An organic products company, ethanol distributor and insurance company recently bought domain names. This week is a double issue of end user sales from Sedo since we skipped last week for Thanksgiving. There are a lot of the domains on the list this week, led by Kush.com at $500,00. The buyer is unknown at [...] Continue reading →

Up until now webpages on WordPress.com get a unique *.wordpress.com address. WordPress announced you can now get free .blog subdomains on 28 .blog domain names the company reserved in the .blog New gTLD launch. In February 2018 the company announced this was coming but now it is live. WordPress added 2 more domains in the [...] Continue reading →

Namecheap announced the launch its new two-factor authentication TOTP 2FA (Time-based One-Time Password algorithm two-factor authentication). Two-factor authentication is done by verifying your identity through another device, such as a smartphone. Most often, a code is sent to this secondary device and then used on the primary device. TOTP 2FA differs from other types of [...] Continue reading →

The holidays are upon us and what better gift to a domainer than free domain development and free make an offer pages. This week ToughDomains has increased its free plan from 20 domain development and domain for sale pages to support for upto 2,500 domains for free. With the release of GDPR it has become [...] Continue reading →

The tiny Pacific island of Niue has sued the Swedish ccTLD registry to gain control of its own ccTLD, .nu, DI has learned. The lawsuit, filed this week in Stockholm, claims that the Internet Foundation In Sweden (IIS) acted illegally when it essentially took control of .nu in 2013, paying its American owner millions of [...] Continue reading →